I've lived here
for about 33 years.
After I graduated from
school and went to work, they transferred us to a
little city in Minnesota. And we lived in a
very small branch.
The branch was
about an hour away. During that time, even though
I had been on a mission and married in the
temple and everything, we actually became ... inactive.
After we moved
back to Utah here, it was very hard to go back
to church, so we didn't. My wife passed away
about six years ago, and I became active again.
You know, I've studied the
scriptures--at least what I thought was studied
the scriptures. But all I was doing was
reading the scriptures.
It's made me sit back
and kind of think and ask deeper questions than
I would think of asking myself. That's really brought
into my mind what it means to study the scriptures.